George Takei And The Hulk Lou Ferrigno To Face Off In ‘Celebrity Apprentice’

This morning on ‘The Today Show’, Donald Trump announced the new line up for this year’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and it looks like it’s a season for the sci-fi fans to tune in to! Two of the eighteen celebrities announced are none other than famed ‘Star Trek’ alumni George Takei and the former green Hulk himself, Lou Ferrigno.

Takei and Ferrigno will be up against other celebrities for a chance to win $250,000 for their charity. If you’re not familiar with the show, each week celebrity teams will be given a task to complete. Under the scrutiny of Donald Trump, they will undergo the stress of long hours to get the task done, a grueling deadline to meet, and the personality clashes that come when you throw a group of people with nothing in common together. The team leader of the winning team will get a check towards their charity. The losing team leader and one other person from that team will have to defend why they shouldn’t leave the show and be fired by Mr. Trump himself. Ultimately, it will come down to two celebrities that will compete for a check for $250,000 to be given to their charity and the bragging rights to be ‘The Celebrity Apprentice.’ Past winners include Piers Morgan, Joan Rivers, Bret Michaels and John Rich.

But don’t think the show is all peaches and roses. After all, it IS a reality show much like ‘Survivor’ (which by the way Mark Burnett who executive produces that show also is the executive producer for this one). Celebrities can get down and dirty as the competition relies on making alliances, setting other people up for possible failure (did you watch last year with NeNe Leakes and Star Jones?) and just dealing with other people’s egos.

“I just think we have a major group of celebrities, and we have a very iconic group,” says the show’s host, Donald Trump who also states that they will be facing “the biggest tasks” the show’s ever had. “This is the best cast we’ve ever had, the biggest cast, and it’s going to be special… It’s amazing the abuse they take and the kind of work they put in.”

Mark Burnett also commented about the cast saying, “We’ve never seen such a smart and funny group as this year’s lineup of celebrities. ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ is better than ever, and it’s all for a great purpose – raising millions for charity.” Last season alone, the show donated over $3.1 million to charities.

Below is the full list of celebrities and the charities they will be representing:

With Takei known for being such a nice guy, I’m hoping he won’t be eliminated too early into the show. But I am curious to see what his and Ferrigno’s strategy for the competition will be. Below is a video of Trump talking about ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ with Ferrigno interviewed at the 1:37 mark.

Will you be watching? And what do you think are the chances of Takei or Ferrigno being crowned ‘The Celebrity Apprentice?”

Janice Kay

Janice's first memories of the genre were of watching the original 'Star Trek' and classic 'Doctor Who' episodes (Tom Baker, aka the Fourth Doctor, was her first). Soon, she was introduced to 'Godzilla' and her addiction then spread to books, magazines, movies and comics. Janice continued as a closet geek as her thirst and love for sci-fi grew and was only second to her love of baking. Then one night, on a whim, she answered a tweet to be a writer for ScienceFiction.com and the geek girl insider her was soon set free. Within 3 years she became the Senior Editor for the site. When not writing or editing for ScienceFiction.com, Janice is scouring the internet to feed her sci-fi cravings while defending conspiracy theories, protecting scientific theorems and loving all things science fiction.... and baking cookies.

George Takei use to appear at Star Trek Conventions (trek-0-ramas) that I produced in the 90’s. He taught me how to be a klingon as far as celebrities are conerned when doing public appearances.This man would be a better fiscally conservative elected official than many most democrats or republicans. His father taught him his business savy esp. in relestate(mispelled). As a conservative southerner…the only issue I would have with Mr Takei is that Bill Shatner wasnt the worse one that sucked. My money is on Sulu.